The Expressive Organization

Linking Identity, Reputation, and the Corporate Brand

Edited by Majken Schulz, Mary Jo Hatch, and Mogens Holten Larsen

Description

This book challenges current beliefs about organizational identity, reputation, and branding. It contains a wealth of new ideas for finding the elusive answers to questions troubling contemporary organizations, such as: How does an organization create a strong reputation? What are the implications of corporate branding on organizational structures and processes? and How do organizations discover their identities?

The Expressive Organization

Linking Identity, Reputation, and the Corporate Brand

Edited by Majken Schulz, Mary Jo Hatch, and Mogens Holten Larsen

Author Information

Majken Schultz is a Professor at the Department of Intercultural Communication and Management at Copenhagen Business School. Her research interests are located at the interface between organization theory, strategy, and communication studies and include identity and image, corporate branding, and reputation management.

Mary Jo Hatch is Professor of Organization Theory at Cranfield School of Management. She specializes in the application of culture-based organization theories to the study of leadership and management and to organizational identity and corporate branding. She is European editor of the Journal of Management Inquiry.

Mogens Holten Larsen is Managing Director of Bergsøe 4 A/S - a Danish communication consultancy specializing in
integrated communications. For the last twenty years he has worked with a wide range of major Danish and international companies representing almost all types of communication issues on all types of markets: AstraZeneca, Renault, Danish Railways, Maersk and Superfoss among others.

The Expressive Organization

Linking Identity, Reputation, and the Corporate Brand

Edited by Majken Schulz, Mary Jo Hatch, and Mogens Holten Larsen

Reviews and Awards

"With a challenge to the beliefs about organizational identity, reputations, and branding, a diverse team of contributors reveals a wealth of new ideas for discovering answers to questions troubling contemporary firms."--Business Horizons